Alternate Brain

Nanci Griffith sings about one of the main reasons the world is in such a mess. Teach your children well. It's A Hard Life Wherever You ...

I'm sure we're all aware of the case of Repugs v Siegelman . My earnest hope is that the current DoJ does not prosecute Rove. If the...

Crazy day yesterday, but an extraordinary trip across Panama. Cristobal Gambon The Canal There was a feeling of sadness throughout though, a...

No, I'm not talkin' about the Fixers' cruise on the Raging Queen Mary , although you never know... The U.S. Navy seems to be r...

You can go to Cursor and click on the 23 links in the following paragraphs, but I put this in because of the last sentence. In Basra, a com...

Excellent article by Anna Quindlen on the need and moral obligation for a better GI Bill. Today's 'please read'. It's hard ...

This headline in the TimesUK about the intra-Shia war in Basra says it all: Iraqi police in Basra shed their uniforms, kept their rifles an...

As you may know I will stoop very low overcome any obstacle in my never-ending quest to research subject matter. Besides, when Fixer's ...

A few shots from around the Queen . Here and here .

NYTimes . Links at site. Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharply intensified, the Afghan government has been dependent on Am...

Raw Story A spokesman for the Baghdad security plan, Tahsin al-Sheikhly, was kidnapped from his Baghdad home by armed men on Thursday, secur...

Yesterday was the most surreal day I've ever had aboard a cruise ship. As I was making this post yesterday, and email popped in my inbo...

Given the fast response time of modern counter-battery radar, this is the modern equivalent of the WWI adage not to light three cigarettes w...

From McCain't's speech in L.A. today: I hold my position because I hate war, and I know very well and very personally how grievous ...

Here's some designs for the Bush library at The Back-of-the-Envelope Design Contest .

In case you missed the two-part special on Frontline , four and a half hours on the lies, deceit, politics, and incompetence that got us to ...

Please Lord, grant me just one earthly desire. All the punches I should have thrown and didn't rolled into one. Just one. Amen.

Mark Morford Maybe now is when the real dark period begins. Sure the last seven years of the inept Bush regime have been miserable and shame...

Well, we're just south of D.C. and the weather is unsettled. Makes for a good night's sleep but going on deck today doesn't loo...